TAC3 Finals Preview - LosirA, The Secret Ace

LosirA has always been a player who is streaky. When he’s on, he can simply end a match with his meticulous play and furious reaction timings. Will LosirA be rolling to victory or fumbling to a quick exit?

During his career as a professional gamer, Losira has been constantly showing amazing results in his ZvP with an overall international/Korean record of 68-34 but has been improving upon his other matchups as of late, so if there is an LG-IM player who could possibly all-kill Liquid, it would be LosirA who is a multi-killing giant with a history of all-killing teams and dropping big names.

When you look at a player like LosirA and think about how to beat him, what strategies would be used to take him down? Or rather, "how can we stop him before he begins to gain momentum and destroy everything?" The answer is simple, go head to head with him. Too many teams try to snipe LosirA. They put out builds specifically designed to dismantle the armor of the seemingly impervious Zerg but LosirA is just too damn good; he won’t be beaten with cheap parlor tricks. Liquid will need players who are willing to take it to the lategame and play on LosirA’s turf, not attempt a feeble all-in which LosirA will smack away effortlessly.

Advantage Facing: HayprO, NonY, Jinro, TLO

NonY and Jinro have proven to be in a fairly large slump as of late, although NonY looks to be slowly returning to form and Jinro improving more and more it is no surprise Liquid will not likely send out any of these members against LosirA’s terror. HayprO was hard to put on this list, as he has notably taken down top world class Zerg opponents, but I fear LosirA rolling off multi kill matches and HayprO’s rather unique style will simply pose little challenge to the Code S level Zerg. Leading off HayprO we find TLO who is possibly the most creative Zerg on Liquid—possibly the world—but against a player such as LosirA we find creativity means little and he will punish all of the tricks of the trade TLO shows off.

Even Match Against: Ret, Sheth, Zenio

Each of these players have showing extreme skill in not only ZvZ but playing against Korean progamers in high pressure situations, though none of them are advantageous against LosirA, they will surely give him a run

Disadvantage Facing: Hero, Taeja

HerO, possibly one of the best PvZ players when it comes to the late game, can easily stand toe to toe with LosirA if not simply just out playing him while Taeja… There is no introduction worthy of Taeja’s single handed domination of TAC3. No one from LG-IM—or any team for that matter—is favored against Taeja.

It really comes down to the trend being presented by the LG-IM Zerg which is winning, plain and simple. He isn’t here to show us some cool build, he simply stands his ground and yells “Are you not entertained!” in his best Russell Crowe impression as he slays progamers left and right until he achieves victory. Possibly one of the most underrated Zergs, LosirA shows utter dominance in team situations and will be the secret ace coming into IPL Face Off who can be the single determination between who wins and who loses.